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October 25, 2006
Love literacy? Love standing six hours a day?
I saw an ad on Craigslist this morning with the heading "Love the written word? Love jewelry?" Yes and yes. I clicked it open and found a jewelry store in search of a counter jockey. Why was this placed in the Writers section? Because the jewelry has lines of poetry written on it, and the ring monkey would have to "assist customers with finding the perfect piece of jewelry to suit their mood, sentiment or special occasion."
I know there's no category on Craigslist called "People who can read and that's about it," but this still doesn't belong in Writing Gigs.
I do have other, better job sources now, but the Craigslist format is so darn seductive that I keep coming back. I like the plain, clean screens. I like the anonymous flagging that allows me to narc on bad kids to my heart's content. Most of all, I like looking at the three new ads in the morning -- one for a Spanish translator, one for a prohibited data entry scam, and one for a brand new website offering "exposure" instead of payment -- then sighing about how there are no jobs out there and returning to my book.
Posted by didofoot at October 25, 2006 08:49 AM
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seriously, what happened to craigslist? it's such a sucky job search engine now. do you use careerbuilder and monster?
Posted by: michele at October 25, 2006 10:32 AM
no, i use writers market (which is a pay service, but a mighty good one) and this site:
http://writersrow.com/deborahng/freelancewritingjobs.html
Posted by: didofoot at October 25, 2006 10:44 AM
Wait...when did craigslist go downhill? How did it go downhill? It worked fine for job-hunting last I checked...almost 2.5 years ago.
Posted by: BD at October 26, 2006 07:21 AM
it's mostly because i look in writing "gigs" instead of writing "jobs." the jobs are perfectly respectable, but boring. the gigs are sometimes interesting, but mostly stupid. it's a tradeoff. kind of.
Posted by: didofoot at October 26, 2006 09:02 AM
i don't know. i've been using CL for the last year and a half looking for a job and i think the job jobs suck ass too. there's a lot less of them than there used to be and they're generally not that great.
Posted by: michele at October 26, 2006 10:09 AM
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